In message <199901141651.RAA21155@orade.ora.de>, Christoph Badura writes:
>abs@anim.dreamworks.com (David Brownlee) writes:
>
>> I', trying to use the standard method of having a shell script
>> that runs perl (direct from 'man perlrun')
>
>> #!/bin/sh -- # -*- perl -*- -p
>
>You could also get rid of the crap from "--" onwards. It serves no
>useful purpose that I know of.
The '-*- perl -*-' part, at least, is used by Emacs to auto-load
perl-mode for the file. The '-p' would be passed to perl.